So beautiful!
Mine were flowering when very short, but I planted them only a month or so ago, so it’s a lot warmer.
Finally getting was weather in northeast, though I’m still too chicken to leave my young plants out overnight. I was able to get 3 stalks of lemongrass to produce roots, so wish me luck in getting tar to grow and propagate. I am waiting for the right planters to come to get some ginger started too.
My big focus is trying to replant half of my scallions on the other side of my yard or in pots. Getting rid of an old in-ground garden bed and I hate the thought of sacrificing all those scallions plants that grow around the rim.
Wishing you luck!
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Best luck!! Would like to do the same! Post back your result! I have tried the seeds but no success.
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Yay! I have good luck with asian store stalks, but with no access, I’ve been trying my best to baby a stub from the WF chopped-up packet. It’s taken 2 months, but it finally seems to have taken now.
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Well I must be blind, because apparently there’s been a serrano pepper growing for a few days…
The other tomato plant has finally fruited! A little baby one.
And the green and red pepper seedlings I put in the vegtrug a while back appear to be doing something even though I trimmed a lot of leaves that looked suspiciously ill.
I moved all the circubit seedlings (well, they had completely outgrown their cups) into a planter today, with the hope that they can be trained vertically. Several cucumbers, zucchini, and butternut squash.
And some kale seedlings have finally taken hold and look like real plants… it was looking pretty grim for our kale until now 
Oh - and the papaya seeds I saved from garbage over two months ago finally woke up too - I moved a dozen seedlings into cups to see how they do. Exciting!
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Very promising!
Aww, your little baby veggies are so cute! 
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Thank you, @naf, @shrinkrap, and @Saregama! I really hope the lemongrass works too, even though I don’t have the preferred climate for these plants. I put the store-bought stalks in the water, and it took a long time for me to see signs that it was working. I almost gave up after a week and not seeing anything resembling roots. I took them out and cut off about a quarter of an inch of the very bottom and put them back in the water. All of a sudden, after ignoring it for another week, long beautiful roots were protruding (I changed the water 2x).
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We had frost warnings twice last week (record cold!) so I am just now allowing my seedlings outside permanently. I potted a bunch up today and moved them from a mostly shady porch to a half-sun location, so hopefully they will start moving along as they acclimate. I also started another tray of basil and peppers in the basement since most of my original crop either didn’t germinate or died shortly thereafter. Trying a new medium for these as well. Generally speaking, though, I think I need to stop aiming for a mid-April move outdoors - May 1 is safer. I don’t have the patience to babysit indoor seedlings for 10+ weeks (started mid-Feb this year, will start early-mid March next year I think!).
My garlic is gorgeous, though, so that’s something! I fertilized for the last time yesterday. Scapes should be up in about 3 weeks!
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When do you usually harvest your garlic? This is my first year where my garlic has survived, so I’m still trying to figure out how to balance letting the bulb grow bigger but not letting it go too long.
I’m bringing all my plants in when I put them out on a sunny day. Will drop into the 40s tonight, but we’re supposed to get a real warm day in Friday! Maybe this weekend will finally prove that warm weather will stay.
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Mine is usually ready around the second week of July, depending on weather. When the two or three lowest sets of leaves are brown and wilted, it’s time.
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I think I have a tomato spotted leaf virus problem. It’s transmitted by thrips. Last year I learned to identify thrips damage. This year I learned to identify TSLV. 
Thrips damage
@shrinkrap what trellis / cage system is that you have for the earthboxes?
I am thinking that staking / tying might be easier / cheaper given that we have so many planters with tomato seedlings at the moment, and even if half don’t make it, I don’t want to make a huge investment since it’s unlikely my hosts will do this again next year - at this scale anyway 
Thanks for the pics. I’m afraid for our plants 
There have already been a few issues with kale and the cucurbits, but I’ve been relatively lucky trimming leaves and the like.
Learn-as-you-go for me here.
Still need to get some of that plastic mulch - so much splashing when watering.
Also need to see if I can find a sprinkler-ish system that can hook up to the hose for the growing horde of tomato containers… takes a while to water them, even longer when I’m being careful not to have anything splash up.
They are inverted pea cages. I also have an automatic watering system from the earthbox company, for the earthbox, but I have drip lines for everything else. . Here’s a picture from last year.
Thanks! Home Depot?
Nah. Mail order. I think Gurney’s . Actually pea FENCE. Different places make them and they go on sale every once in awhile. Harris Seeds makes them too.
I also have cages for single plants from Gardner’s Supply. These are expensive tomatoes!
BTW; these cages work for me because I grow dwarf project tomatoes, which only get about 4 or 5 feet tall.
